While the weekly newspaper of the Anti-Restler Zaloynim group claims today that the NY Media dismisses the fraud claims surrounding the election of last week Thursday, the New York Post reports the following today: Candidates, voters and poll workers are claiming fraud at a polling site in Williamsburg in a contentious district-leader race involving the handpicked candidate of former Brooklyn Democratic boss Vito Lopez.
District leader Lincoln Restler, who’s trailing Lopez candidate Chris Olechowski in a post-Primary Day count, claimed widespread fraud and said he is considering a lawsuit.
His opponent’s camp is charging voter irregularities on Restler’s side.
A poll worker at IS 71 on Heyward Street told The Post of roughly 15 instances of voters claiming someone had fraudulently cast ballots under their names.
“This happened numerous times. The voter would say, ‘I didn’t sign it. Who signed it?’ . . . I have never seen it this bad. Clearly, it was fraud,” the poll worker said.
Voter Abraham Landau told The Post he tried to vote but someone had already cast a ballot under his name. Susan Lerner, executive director of Common Cause, said she, too, got complaints of double-voting and fraud.
